Lito Kattou at Koroneou Gallery / Athens

Lito Kattou / Night Flight

1 December 2017 – 3 February 2018

Eleni Koroneou Gallery

Dimofontos 30 & Thorikion , 11742 Athens

Gloomy
unprecedented light. Evening shadows. Skins and weapons in abandoned terrains
that signify islands of dislocated time. Somewhere in a possible future, somewhere
in a possible past. Bodies and wanderings linked by vectors between them,
freeze or in motion but always in the pursuit of the perfect landscape. At a
time where things are non opaque. Shady times. Warriors and voices in dialogue.
What is their demand? “Let us remain in the past let us forget who we are”. No
histories at all? How could that be declared? Degrounding
or just a hope for neutrality. And they keep on… Those types of wanderings that allow the
creation of a mesmerising experience, the suggestion of the perpetual struggle
for a “perfect” society to exist. Was it or will be. How could the unquenchable
desire of civilisation document itself? It is perhaps driven by an unconscious
awareness of its looming demise.

For her
first solo exhibition with the gallery Lito Kattou presents a new series of
works continuing to explore her fascination on the ontology of flatness and its
potentiality to articulate volume, on different processes of embodiment and
transfigurations of time and materials. Materiality and subjectivity are examined
through a diversity of gestures spanning from digital fabrication to
thermochemical elaborations.

The five
metal Warriors’ silhouettes carry and embed on them weaponry, jewellers and
skins done from different materials as aluminium, minerals, steel, textile and
plastic. They are surrounded by flat aluminium cut outs which depict body parts
and are perceived as the Warriors shadows. Moreover flat copper sheets signify
the understanding of the landscape as a flat vertical port ready to be entered.
Would the warriors use the ports for their wanderings? Have they used them
already?

Lastly,
in the upper level of the gallery space the mirror piece functions as a declaration
done by the wandering voices. At the same time it hosts
in its reflective surface the Warriors bodies, shadows and also the viewer,
promoting a non hierarchical dialogue shifting between the self and the other.

Lito Kattou (Nicosia, Cyprus, 1990) has graduated from the Athens School of Fine
Arts in 2013 and the Royal College of Art, London in 2017 with an MA in
Sculpture. Kattou was the invited artist for the 89plus Google Residency
curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets at the Google Cultural
Institute in Paris, September - November 2017. Recent selected shows include: “And if I left of dreaming about you?”
Foothold, Bari, Italy ; “It looks like up to me” Eleni Koroneou, Athens;
“Fighting with the Sun” (solo), Clearview.ltd, London; “Solar love for the
Rapid Felines” (solo), Pierre Poumet, Bordeaux, France; “The Equilibrists”, New
Museum, NY in collaboration with DESTE Foundation, Benaki Museum, Athens,
Greece; “Handsome,
Young and Unemployed”, KOMPLOT, Brussels, Belgium